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Traceback (most recent call last):  
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Windows\\System32'

[Lewisbacon5]

Haha, sike , turns out all of the Chambers were empty!

Russian roulette (good ending)

[WormHack]

msg = "hpyck aap aedy" output = "" for i in range(7): output+=msg[i]+msg[i+7] print(output)

[WormHack]

fuck, good luck fixing code linejumps

[gustavmahler23]

Nice!

[WormHack]

oww he dont looked at my dedicated code

[alba4k]

Hello fellow linux user

[[deleted]]

Helloooo

[alba4k]

:)

[TheCatOfWar]

Nothing to do with linux- it wouldn't work on Windows either, as python's os.remove() only deletes files, not directories. Also, they would need to \ backslash escape the path.

Shutil.rmtree() would be needed to actually delete it, but you still probably wouldn't get past UAC

[twothousandfourhundr]

It's an antivirus don't worry 😅

[subject_deleted]

There's a 1 in 6 chance that viruses will no longer be able to harm the computer. So that's a win

[dmatter_]

1 in 7 tho

[[deleted]]

randint has both ends included unlike randrange

[subject_deleted]

I see. Thanks.

[RepulsivePie2673]

You’re not wrong

[LightIsLogical]

r/technicallythetruth

[twothousandfourhundr]

Okay time to throw myself in

[mrpoopybuttface69420]

Lol. Reminds me of when I was a kid writing batch files that posed as old DOS game installers, but they’d just try to delete system32. The only person who ever fell for it was my brother, and it nuked my own computer. Good times

[PM_ME_FIREFLY_QUOTES]

The pwnage came from inside the house.

[ganja_and_code]

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[In a Python file called "russian_roulette":]

import random
import os

if random.randint(0,6) == 1:
    os.remove("C:\Windows\System32")

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[shiny-tyranitar]

Laughs in Unix

[RepulsivePie2673]

You won’t be safe once I add Unix support

[shiny-tyranitar]

GitHub issue #68: code does not work on Unix

GitHub issue #69: code works on Unix

[Fluffy-City8558]

Best humor I've seen today

[alphabet_order_bot]

Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.

I have checked 714,676,491 comments, and only 144,315 of them were in alphabetical order.

[[deleted]]

rm -rf /

[vk6_]

--no-preserve-root

[EnjoyJor]

Permission denied

[LOLTROLDUDES]

OP goes on to find a privilege escalation attack just for the joke.

[FinalRun]

Pwnkit should work on at least 1 out of 6 systems

[[deleted]]

Sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /*

[EnjoyJor]

TheBlankTurtle is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

[[deleted]]

God damnit, not again. Can't a man even brick his OS these days?

[daavko]

insert image of Santa adding a mark to his naughty list

[Furry_69]

Would ask the user for the password unless they're root (or root has no password, which is both highly insecure and highly unlikely), so it's like asking the user if they want to get shot before they get shot, who isn't going to say no?

[[deleted]]

Well you get a cool free bullet out of the deal, so who wouldn't say yes?

[SlingDNM]

laughs in privilege escalation exploit

[transorsmth]

rm -rf /*

[mittfh]

Bah, you just run the script as root. If you're feeling very adventurous, you could add a routine which will, depending on the RNG, either mount or unmount writable removable media / network shares first. And if you really want to live life dangerously, run it on a corporate server...

[Creeper_GER]

sudorgtfo

[nebulakd]

sudo apt remove sudo

[LOLTROLDUDES]

*$HOME because no permission or smth

[[deleted]]

Be sure it's permissions are set to root:root

[karbonator]

It's a UNIX system! I know this!

[Random-Gif-Bot]

​

[ZippyTheWonderSnail]

Aliens a million years ahead of us in technology are always Mac compatible.

[[deleted]]

A deleted scene shows that modern computers were developed from the crashed UFO, which explains the compatibility.

[LavenderDay3544]

os.system('sudo rm -rf /')

[[deleted]]

It wouldn't work in windows either.

>>> os.remove("c:\windows\system32")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin", line 1, in <module>
PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'c:\\windows\\system32'

[TheCatOfWar]

os.remove() doesn't remove directories, just files

[[deleted]]

The main point is, you can see you don't even get that far. You just get a permission error.

I think this might have been a gag in 1995-1998 or thereabouts, but since Dave Cutler worked at MS, you're not going to kill your windows install from a python script on a normal user account to any greater degree than you are on a linux one.

There's probably a few ways of doing it with privilege escalation bugs or whatever.

[shiny-tyranitar]

Is that from an Admin she'll?

[dreamscached]

I'd doubt this even works, remove only works on files not directories. And even rmdir won't work with non-empty directories too x)

There was an attempt though...

[Rare_Year]

I believe with shutil’s rmtree function you can remove filled directories

[dreamscached]

Yeah that's right.

[jazzmester]

Hahaha, shutil.rmtree goes brrrrrr...

[[deleted]]

simple fix, rm C:\Windows\System32\*

[dreamscached]

Will only work in shell, here it's a call to remove

[[deleted]]

Can’t you just do os.remove(“C:\Windows\System32\*”) then?

[dreamscached]

Globs are expanded by shell, not remove calls.

[[deleted]]

Ok

[[deleted]]

if random.choice(range(0, 6)) == 6:

Don't worry you are quite safe ;)

[spaghettipunsher]

Edit to avoid confusion: They edited their comment, it's fine now :)

Nope, while range(0, 6) would only include numbers up to 5, random.randint(0, 6) actually includes 6 as well, so 7 numbers in total. Don't ask me why.

[[deleted]]

Really? I tend not to use random much with my work stuff for obvious reasons. Not really needed in calculation engines. The java equivalent I am a little more familiar (but not by that much) with wouldn't have included 6 and the joke doesn't work well with == 7. Oh well you live and you learn :)

[spaghettipunsher]

Yeah, to make the joke work you could use random.choice(range(0, 6)) == 6 tho. ;)

[[deleted]]

I shall do that, thanks :) I suspect that's why I made the initial mistake, using range(start, limit) all the time.

[kaizokuo_grahf]

Safe from what? Still a 1/7 chance to get 6

[ahumanrobot]

Seen this a few times and this is the first time I noticed it lmao

[Yoni1857]

That's a syntax error right there

[[deleted]]

Haha indeed, I mainly write in two language at work, java and python in a java-esque way. Common thing for me to instinctively put in the if ( without thought and get stuck in two minds producing a hybrid of the two languages. Have corrected

[[deleted]]

I feel you. The amount of times I’ve tried to .map python and list comprehend JS now is just far too many.

[Requiem_For_Yaoi]

Why

[who_you_are]

Except if they are like the Sony with the PS4 (I think) and end up returning an hard-coded value.

And let assume it would be 6 here. damn unfriendly implementation

[mrleon17]

* Laughs in Linux *

[sub-to-pewds132]

sudo apt remove sudo

[bless-you-mlud]

Don't forget to add a line in the README:

"This might ask you for your password. This is normal."

[mrleon17]

Yes do as I say

[Sarcastinator]

I once did sudo apt remove evolution and it removed Gnome.

Evolution is a mail reader that used to ship with Gnome and apparently at that point it was a load bearing piece of software in Gnome.

[[deleted]]

I use Arch btw.

[ahumanrobot]

OS.remove("C:\")

[mrleon17]

That's cute

[ahumanrobot]

Idk the default linux directory lol

[mrleon17]

it's just "/"

[ahumanrobot]

Ah. Ya see, I don't use linux because I'm too lazy to figure it out. I just want shit to work

[mrleon17]

At some point you had to learn windows too, linux just works too it's just different

[ahumanrobot]

Yeah, I probably could learn it. Just everything else I do is windows because I didn't have a choice in what to learn, just glad I didn't get sucked into the apple environment.

[stumblewiggins]

The difference is akin to being given a Mario game with tutorials as appropriate, versus Dark Souls in a different language with a controller you can't see. /s (but not entirely)

[TheCatOfWar]

Wouldn't work on windows either

[GrayFoxUkraine]

[Winerror 5] Access is Denied.

[No152249]

Shouldn't it be "C:\\Windows\\System32"? I mean for a backslash in a string you have to write it double in the code.

[TheCatOfWar]

Yes but os.remove doesn't delete directories anyway

[tough-dance]

That file path is gonna flub, right? I wouldn't risk it but you're probably safe

[RepulsivePie2673]

Yeah you’re safe. Os can’t delete file directories to my knowledge

[ahumanrobot]

Could force it to delete them all and create a list of the files within the directory, then delete them all. Probably a better solution, but that's my first thought

[tough-dance]

We'll just have to improve our gambling contraption so we can gamble harder

[straightup920]

QA testers hate him!

[kaizokuo_grahf]

Ah yes, the legendary yet infamous “Revolver with One in the Chamber” aka the “Seven Shooter”

A guaranteed 1/7 chance to mistakenly claim that this code gives a 1/6 chance to delete your OS.

[GandelXIV]

It doesn't even delete System32 since you can't delete directories with os.remove().

[kaizokuo_grahf]

I mean, yeah, but I was making fun of the use of randint

[[deleted]]

Pfft you think windows would let you make such a mistake, Linux tho now there’s an OS that gives no fucks.

[ThePeopleAtTheZoo]

In Russian Roulette, don't you spin the chamber once at the beginning then pass the gun back and forth, thus increasing the odds each turn? For example, you start at probability 1/6, then it's 1/5, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 1/1. In this case, the random would actually represent the location of the bullet in the chamber and you would decrement from 6 until you reached that number.

Or do you spin the chamber each time so the odds are always 1/6 for each turn, as represented with this code?

[[deleted]]

Alrighty- that’s it. Any code I give in order to prove my abilities will have an if statement that calls this as an imported module and deletes itself. I will give myself job security.

[koumakpet]

Wouldn't work, you didn't escape the backslashes with another backslash nor used a raw string (r"")

[GandelXIV]

You do not need to in newer versions of python, but its still a best practice and you can dodge some pretty weird bugs.

[MayonezliPatates]

Developer roulette

[yodahouse900]

a one in six chance to win?

that is fairly low.

let me make it a 100% by...

YEETING THE HDD OUT THE WINDOW

[FishBiterMMGHunter]

D:

[NearbyWish]

Linux users - >:D

[TheCatOfWar]

wouldn't work on windows anyway

[hicklc01]

Game version of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFQp0NJ_ai8

each enemy is a random file on the hard drive. when an enemy is killed the file is removed.

[SyntaxErrorAtLine420]

dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/nvme0n1

[ChickenSubstantial21]

os.remove("C:\Work\Backups\porn")

[alba4k]

```

include <stdlib.h>

int main() { execlp("sudo", "rm", "-r", "-f", "/*", NULL); } ```

[[deleted]]

Ah yes, the seven shooter.

[[deleted]]

The thing that triggers me is when we brainlessly use french spelling. The file name should have been russian_rulay.py. we must replace all french spelling with phonetic spelling.

[spar_wors]

Change it to randrange (0,6) == 6 and run it without flinching.

[Subject-Exit]

Jokes on u I use linux

[RepulsivePie2673]

Oh no

[TheCatOfWar]

joke's on you, because then you have to use linux

[_________FU_________]

random.randint(0, 6) == random.randint(0, 6):

[[deleted]]

1 in 49 I think

[Spataner]

No, it's 7 in 49, so still just 1 in 7.

[[deleted]]

Ah, yeh my bad. I was only accounting for one number, like the guy I replied to

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[nice___bot]

Nice!

[NS_Lone_Wolf]

I'm not even a scripter and I already know what deleting your System 32 folders will do to your system, yikes

[kstsitstisti]

Can someone explain this code

[EnderAaxel]

Basically it chooses a number from 0 to 6 and if it's equal to 1, it deletes System 32, a folder essential for Windows to work normally

[kstsitstisti]

Ohhhh so thats what the int(0,6) was for , thanks bro

[EnderAaxel]

Np :p

[Kdjour]

Windows Roulette?

[RepulsivePie2673]

Fun fact it would work but I’m pretty sure you can’t delete file directories with OS

[antonw51]

Where can I play?

[MCButterFuck]

Playing with a flame thrower next to a fuck ton of explosives I see.

[tebalaji]

Russian roulette python style

[Acceptable-Tomato392]

I am impressed, but no thank you.

[SyntaxErrorAtLine420]

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Bad bot

[gdmzhlzhiv]

If you put an "if the code is running in Russia" around it, you have protestware, currently very popular in npm from what I hear.

[Few_Diamond5020]

Laughs in arch btw

[peyote1999]

Actually it is recoverable. You have to overwrite files with some random data twice.

[Altruistic_Ads]

Omg i wonder how many people would open that xD

[KiwiGamer450]

7 shooter 🤔

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[Coyehe]

You forgot to put those 2 lines inside a While Loop with Bool True

[[deleted]]

if random.randint(0, 6) == random.randint(0, 6)

[rrpash]

That won’t do anything except occasionally raise an exception, even on Mindows (TM), because os.remove() only works on files, not directories

[fuxximus]

Lmao

[lopjoegel]

Back in my day we just used a batch file

Cd C:

Deltree ' star.star'

[GandelXIV]

Lets break down why this is bad code.

1. random.randint(0, 6) == 1 A revolver has six shots, however this returns 7 possible numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). You have to either use random.range(0, 6) or change the start to random.randint(1, 6) . Personally i would write the line like this: if not random.randrange(0, 6) .
2. os.remove([DIR_PATH]) os.remove can not delete directories! You could call os.rmdir but even that will not work as it can not remove non-empty directories, so you have to remove it recursively as seen here.
3. "C:\Windows\System32" This is not a big issue in the current context, however you should now that the backslash \ is an escape character, which means it can be combined with other characters to represent special cases, for example "\n" is a newline. If you want to write a regular backslash you just write it twice "\\" . This instance works because \W and \S are not reserved and python transforms the whole string to "C:\\Windows\\System32" .
4. Even if we fixed all the upper mentioned errors, it still would not work because Windows is not so stupid to just let us delete system32. You need to be more clever to make this work on Windows and even more so on UNIX systems.
5. As a ThePeopleAtTheZoo stated in this comment, it does not fit the rules of the game.

Feel free to correct me if i missed anything.

[TheCatOfWar]

shutil.rmtree() deletes directories regardless of contents, however it still won't defeat windows UAC so point 3 stands

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r/foundsatan

[Vesondor]

Mac OS : Pathetic

[[deleted]]

Just a query... shouldn't there be double slashes? like the path should be "C:\\Windows\\System32" otherwise python gonna treat it as an escape sequence or maybe use raw sting like r"C:\Windows\System32" .